[MD] How far from the text do you go?

[david buchanan]

Platt said:
... Pirsig saw the light in the superior morality of the free market because of it is more open to the evolutionary force of Dynamic Quality.
... Pirsig specifically identified the Giant not with economic systems but with social organizations:



dmb quotes Pirsig:

"From a static point of view socialism is more moral than capitalism. It's a higher form of evolution. It is an intellectually guided society, not just a society that is guided by mindless traditions. That's what gives socialism its drive." (Lila, page 220)


"The MOQ says the free market makes everybody richer by preventing" economic stagnation and that's why "the major capitalist economies have done so much better ..than the major socialist economies. It is not", he says, "that Victorian social economic patterns are more moral. Quite the opposite. They are LESS moral as static patterns go." (Lila, page 221, emphasis is Pirsig's)



"He was on his way to India, done with his corporate pseudo-science, still pursuing truth, knowing that to find it he would have to get free of the Giant first.    Here up in the sky above him right now were the heads of the corporation that had prompted the chemistry professor to make that talk to that fraternity so many years ago. This was the brain center of the corporate network, surrounded by other networks: financial networks, information networks, electronic transmission networks. That's what all those tiny bodies were doing up in there suspended so many hundreds of feet up in the sky. Participating in the Giant. (Lila, page 219)